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Laugh and the world laughs with you. Even 1 (good), you might live longer, an American researcher reports.
“Adults who have a sense of humor live longer than 2 who don’t find life funny, and the survival edge is particularly large for people 3 cancer,” says Richard Smith of the Columbia University of Science and Technology.
He 4 (present)his study of about 54,000 Americans, 5 he had followed for seven years, at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting last Monday.
At the start, patients filled out questionnaires on 6 easily they found humor in real-life situations and how important a humorous idea was. The study showed next the greater role humor played in their lives, 7 greater their chances were in 8 (survive)the seven years. Adult scoring in the top one-quarter for humor appreciation were 35% more likely 9 (be)alive than those in the bottom quarter. In a smaller group of 2,015 people who had a cancer diagnosis(诊断) at the start, the study found 10 important that a great sense of humor cut the chances of dying by about 70%.